Newport Beach Ca Transportation

Developers may be required to install lockers and shower stalls for bicyclists and provide preferential parking for car-poolers under an ordinance being considered by the City Council. Under the proposed ordinance, the council would prohibit the Planning Commission from approving any new commercial development with 100 or more employees that does not include facilities for workers who choose not to ride to work alone.

A Caltrans project to repair Newport Boulevard this summer was delayed after downtown merchants asked the city to help them recover lost business caused by construction on the Costa Mesa Freeway. The California Department of Transportation agreed to delay the $1-million street-repair project until next January to give the merchants time to stabilize their businesses, said Bill Morris, public services director for Costa Mesa.

After months of delays that have caused both residents and visitors more than a year of traffic woes, improvements to the bridge that carries commuters to and from the Balboa Peninsula and Newport Boulevard are due to be complete in February. The completion date for $3.3-million project was pushed back after an underground oil well was discovered on the site, according to city traffic engineers.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday announced its approval of an application by the city and Caltrans to widen the Newport Boulevard bridge. The endorsement is the last one needed before the city seeks bids for the $3.3-million project. The project, which is expected to be under way by September, will mean an additional northbound lane over the bridge on 32nd Street. The lane will provide an exit for vehicles heading east on Coast Highway. According to City Manager Robert L.

The City Council voted unanimously this week to create an assessment district in Cannery Village to pay for antique-style street lights and to upgrade curbs, gutters and sidewalks in the area. The repairs will be made as part of the city's larger road-improvement program, with the cost to be split by property owners and the city. "Since we're upgrading the streets, it's an excellent opportunity to do that work," said Steve Badham, project manager.

Visitors to the Balboa Pier and other areas near the popular Fun Zone will soon be seeing some parking and traffic signal changes that city engineers hope will help ease traffic. There will no longer be parking on the inland bay side of Bay Street between Adams Street and Palm Street. That one-way road is often jammed with cars trying to turn into a nearby parking structure. Engineers say eliminating those spaces will create a new lane to ease congestion.

Repairs on a water main will disrupt traffic on Newport Coast Drive beginning today and lasting until Friday, officials said. A construction crew contracted by the Irvine Ranch Water District will be doing the repair work, which will force the closure of the street's two northbound lanes between Coast Highway and Pelican Hill Road. The southbound lanes will not be closed.

Newport Center, in an effort to cut work-related commuter traffic in the business complex, is pushing ahead with plans to get area workers out of their cars and into car pools and buses. More than 800 companies employing 12,000 workers are in Newport Center, which has the open-air Fashion Island shopping center at its hub. Last week, four of the complex's major employers got together with the Orange County Transit District for the first meeting of the Newport Center Transportation Management Assn.

City officials today will unveil two signs to mark the boundaries of the mile-long stretch of West Coast Highway known as Mariner's Mile. Encompassing the site of Newport's first landing in 1870, the historic business district is now dominated by car dealerships, high-rise buildings and restaurants. To point the area out to motorists, two custom-made signs with the words "Mariner's Mile" and the city's logo will be installed on the West Coast Highway at either end of the district.